Re: Topband: Poor Conditions

2023-10-28 Thread n4is
As my good friend George AA7JV used to say Noise I UP! I live is a city lot, 20 years ago it was in a rural area, now it is in the city, The man made noise is exponentially going up. In 2006 I bult a vertical WF with great directivity, FPL , our local power and light company did and does a great

Re: Topband: Poor Conditions

2023-10-28 Thread Jim Brown
On 10/28/2023 2:04 AM, Roger Kennedy wrote: But I had to get OFCOM involved a couple of years ago when I suddenly had S9 +30dB hash all over the band, which seemed to be coming from every house down the street. They sussed it out within a couple of hours, and removed the offending faulty PSU. F

Topband: Poor Conditions

2023-10-28 Thread Roger Kennedy
Hi Jim Well I am obviously talking about the same S Meter on the same or similar antennas. So I am comparing like with like when I say signals are weaker. But as you say, the big problem these days is radiated noise from poor power supplies - so the fact that signals are weaker AND noise is str